YouTube has been serving as a hub for both entertainment and news-related footage for years, and has turned into a platform for latest citizen-uploaded footage videos on things happening around the globe, from street disturbances and demonstrations, to on-the-spot reporting covering elections or natural disasters. Last month, the video sharing platform launched a face-blurring tool to help secure anonymity when posting footage, and now it presents a new channel, The I Files, dedicated to investigative reporting.
Google, which unveiled a bunch of new products at Google I/O last week, is committed not only to providing its users with more refined services and online experience, but also to sharing its knowledge and expertise with aspiring developers, contributing to the future of the web (and Google itself). The internet giant, which has been engaging younger generation of developers through its programs and seasonal sessions for quite a long time, has launched an online destination, Google Developers Live, which works as “a place for developers to connect face-to-face with Google engineers as well as each other in a live setting,” states the company in a blog post. In addition to this, the king of the web has initiated another two programs, Google Developers Academy and Google Developers University Consortium, which allow users to study when it’s convenient for them, not in real time only.